Fly me to the moon

SiriusLuv17

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto

Summary: "Don't be afraid," Sasuke told her. She laughed and her emerald orbs beamed, "I'm not afraid to die. I've been dying a little bit each day since you came back into my life,"

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Chapter Three

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Sai woke up for the second time that morning. He had an incredible painful headache and his back was hurting like hell. He tried to move and realized that he couldn't. Only then he spotted the blue chakra that acted as a rope. His eyes bulged and he immediately remembered what had happened.

"Damn you Sakura!" he groaned loudly letting his angry emotions get the best of him.

He hadn't been this angry for years. He was starting to lose control of his emotions. Thanks to Naruto.

"Well, it was about time that you woke up," Sai's head snapped towards his left. His eyes narrowed as he stared directly at the infamous crimson eyes of Sasuke Uchiha.

"Yeah! Thank God he's awake!" Sai looked to his other side to see a very loud red-haired girl point a threatening finger at him, "Let's get this over with!"

"Shut it Karin," a fish like young man exclaimed annoyed.

"You shut it!" Karin hissed angrily.

"You both shut it." Sasuke replied shortly. He glared at both of them. Karin bit her lip and blushed furiously and Suigetsu simply smirked back at the Uchiha.

Sasuke crouched down and stared directly at Sai's eyes, "What are you doing here? Is any Konoha team close? What are they after?"

Sai smiled his fake smile and remained silent and Sasuke blank expression changed to annoyed one.

"Speak!" Sasuke ordered exasperated.

"I don't have time for this," Sai answered quietly, "I have to go rescue a … friend," at the word friend, Sai couldn't help but to feel a strange feeling down his stomach.

"I thought you were a part of team Kakashi," Sasuke said as he stood up, "Where is your team?" the Uchiha smirked, "Traded you too already?"

Sai glared at the Uchiha and wondered why on earth, Sakura and Naruto wanted this guy back.

"Listen up, crap face," Karin gasped, Suigetsu arched an eyebrow and Jugo remained quiet as ever, "Sakura is in danger and I can't waste time here chatting with you…"

Sai smirked at the insulting nickname he had come up with. Suddenly he realized it was far easier to come up with nicknames to people he didn't like.

"Heh… what happened?" Sasuke asked and Sai looked up to the Uchiha with an annoying knowing look.

"Why do you care?" asked Sai with a smug smirk.

Karin stepped forward, "Yeah, it's not our business,"

"Why Karin? Are you jealous?" Suigetsu asked as he chuckled. Karin glared daggers at him.

"What happened?" Sasuke repeated, this time he pulled out his Kusangi.

Sai stared at his sword and then at Sasuke, "We were attacked by some ninja,"

"Elaborate,"

Sai was becoming highly annoyed by the Uchiha's attitude. Who did he think he was? Ordering him around. Acting like he's superior to him.

"That's all I know. Sakura tried to save my life; she pushed me away from the enemy and put me unconscious. When I woke up, unfortunately you were the first thing I saw,"

"Hn," Sasuke swung his Kusangi and suddenly, the sword flashed as his chidori consumed it. With a quick swing the blue chakra rope was gone.

Sai looked quite impressed and shocked as well. He was free.

"What?!" Karin cried out quite shocked, "Sasuke-kun! Why?!"

"Hahaha, so this means we're to rescue this old friend of yours?" Suigetsu asked as he laughed at the incredulous look on Karin's face.

"Aha…" Sasuke answered to Suigetsu's question and then he stared at Sai, "What happened?"

It had been years since Konoha had seen such a terrible day like today. The rain kept falling heavily and the thundering and the incredible strong wind weren't giving any signs to be calming down soon.

A blonde figure stared through the window to the empty streets; a look of worry invaded her exhausted features.

"Sakura…"

-Flashback-

"You cannot stop me!" a younger Tsunade yelled angrily, her fist in the air and tears kept falling down her pale skin like a wild river.

The third Hokage stared down to the young woman, sadness graced his old wrinkled face, "Tsunade…" his voice was low and filled with pity.

"No! Please… I m-must go…"

"Don't be foolish… Orochimaru left and has no intention to return… ever again," the third looked directly at her eyes; they were too filled with deception and sadness.

"You don't understand…" Tsunade whispered as she wiped the tears away.

"My decision is final…"

-Flashback's over-

"Tsunade-sama?"

Tsunade blinked slowly as a familiar voice brought her back to the present situation.

"Genma… what took you so long?" The blonde woman asked as she walked away from the window.

"I've just arrived from a mission and I came as soon as possible," Tsunade nodded and then her eyes darted away to the other two ANBU ninjas.

"I see… I'm sorry but I'm afraid you will have no time to rest," Genma nodded at the news, "As you have probably heard by now, Haruno Sakura has left the village with the goal of bringing a certain Uchiha back. Your mission is to retrieve her and the shinobi that is accompanying her,"

"What about the Uchiha?" Genma asked. The senbon in his mouth moved to the left.

"Hn, if he makes an appearance try to neutralize him, if not just bring Sakura back," Tsunade finished with a loud sigh.

"Hai,"

Sakura woke up to the feeling of being watched, she sat up gasping for air, her emerald eyes scanned the room and only then she allowed herself to breathe easily as she spotted no one in the room.

The memories of the previous day came to her immediately. She let out an inwardly groan as she jumped of the bed. She stretched her arms and smiled a little, her strengths were back.

Now she only needed to find a way out. It was easier said than done.

As she walked towards the door she could hear the faint sound of footsteps. She started to panic. She needed to think of something fast.

The pink-haired kunoichi then sat on her bed and decided to wait for whoever it was. She watched intently at the door knob. It started to move and the door was slowly opened to reveal the same man from the day before.

The same grey hair and the very same scary scar gave him away easily. He had been the only one who hadn't been wearing a mask. The man stared directly at her and smiled a wicked smile that gave Sakura a bad feeling.

"You're awake…" the man spoke, his voice echoing through the dark room.

"Congratulations for pointing out the obvious," the man form stiffened as the voice had not left the pink-haired girl that was sitting on the bed.

He turned slowly as he heard the door close from behind him. Then his eyes widened as he saw from the corner of his eyes another pink-haired girl run towards him.

It happened so fast. Sakura raised her fist in the air ready to punch that man only then he held her wrist as she did so.

"Hn, feisty one aren't you?" he asked as he smirked.

"You bastard!" Sakura cried as she yanked her arm away.

"I didn't come here to fight," he told her as he walked towards the other Sakura who remained sitting on the bed, "Ahhh you haven't mastered it yet?" he asked in a mocking tone.

Sakura rubbed her wrist as the man took out a kunai ready to stab the fake Sakura.

"Eh…" The fake Sakura smiled as she dodged the kunai and disappeared.

"Wha-" the man didn't have time to reply as both Sakura's punched him in the face. He flew back to the bed breaking it into two halves.

"Tchee, you're great really," the fake Sakura said to the real one.

"Ahh but you're great too, you're me after all," the real Sakura giggled, "I think we should finish him off, what do you think?"

"Hai, I'll do it, you go ahead," fake Sakura said as she approached the unconscious man with a kunai in her hands.

"This rain is annoying! It's been raining since we left," Naruto complained as he hid himself under the trees leaves.

"Quiet," said Kakashi as he stared straight ahead with his sharingan, "We're here,"

Instantly everyone frowned and stiffened. They knew things were about to become serious as soon as they crossed the borders.

"Naruto, Ino and Choiji, you stay here. Shikamaru and I are going to take a closer look," Kakashi told them, his voice adopting a serious and grim tone.

"What?! I wanna go too!" Naruto glared at the copy-nin, "You can't possible expec-"

Kakashi turned around abruptly to stare at the blonde boy, "Naruto… I'm only going to say this once. You are staying here and wait for any further orders. This is not like any other mission, do you understand?"

Naruto blue eyes stared directly to Kakashi eye. Slowly he nodded and Kakashi sighed and placed a reassuring hand on the blonde's shoulder.

"If we're not back in twenty minutes you know what to do." It was not a question but a statement.

Ino and Chouji nodded while Naruto stood quiet watching as Kakashi and Shikamaru jumped between the trees towards the borders of the Rain country.

The pink-haired girl tripped and soared through the air - there was a throbbing pain in her foot and the breath was knocked from her as she landed face-down on the grass. She cursed under her breath and looked quickly behind, they were approaching her.

She forced herself up and continued to run. She gasped for air as her hand clutched to her wounded stomach.

Sakura had managed to escape, thanks to her clone. The same woman had been the only one to see through her plan. They had fought, hence the stomach wound.

Her trek forward to the bushes was awkward. Her ankle protested and she was tired; Sakura moved with a kind of resigned lurch, thinking that she needed to carry on. That she could not stop under any circumstances.

She tried to see what a head of her was, but it was rather difficult since there were almost no illumination around. She could not use her chakra either; not only she was almost out of chakra but using it would make her an easy target. After a while she arrived to what seemed some sort of a fence. The pink-haired kunoichi reached it, and flung herself upwards, driven more by fear than muscle.

Gravity was not kind. She found herself unable to move up, and unwilling to move down. She saw them getting closer; she could already hear their mocking laugher.

Sakura felt a firm and strong pair of hands grabbing her by the waist, throwing her without warning towards the ground. Her vision had become blurry and the pain in her head was too much to handle.

She knew that staying down in the ground was not an option. She forced her arms and pulled herself up.

"Bitch!" The same man that Sakura and her clone had defeated yelled angrily. Sakura tried to move as she saw the man's fingers come together. He was going to perform some jutsu.

It happened too fast. The blow of a strange shadow caught her in the side of her face, sending her sprawling, cheek burning. Sakura scrambled back onto her knees, looking for the source of the attack but it was gone, replaced by two stands of sticks that looked uncomfortably like… legs.

Almost against her own will she looked up, and screamed at the excruciating pain. Her hands reached her cheek; her fingers could feel something wet. Her own blood. She could feel her skin burning right where she had been hit.

Sakura tried to rise again, but again the man was faster than her. He ran towards her and grabbed her by the neck. Sakura could feel the air vanishing as he jerked her into the air. Her emerald eyes widened in horror as she thought that that was it. She was about to die.

The man's fingers were white-hot against her throat, twitching as she felt her feet dangling helplessly. She gasped for breath, grabbing at the arm, trying with no avail to push it away.

The helpless Kunoichi surroundings narrowed to his tiny dangerous dark eyes that twinkled in malice as he stared right back at her.

"Stop it boss! We need her to heal our men!" the strange woman shouted.

Sakura writhed helplessly in the man's grasp as the world faded away.

"I feel something!" Karin cried excitedly as she jumped from a tree branch to the rocky floor.

"What? Another old man's chakra?" Suigetsu asked as he taunted her. Karin glared at him before turning to Sasuke.

"I can feel it too," Sasuke told her and Karin face fell in disappointment. Sasuke stared at Sai who was already making his way towards the strange Chakra.

"Well?" Jugo asked as he landed right at Sasuke's side.

"Yeah, are we going? I don't think the skinny boy will be able to handle it on his own," said Suigetsu as he stared in the direction that Sai ran to.

"Hn, let's get this over with then,"

The four of them hurried behind Sai. It didn't took them long to catch up with the strange boy. Sasuke stared at him and wondered what his story was. How and why did he end up with Naruto and Sakura?

Sasuke watched as Sai stiffened and stopped between some trees. He heard Karin gasp and Suigetsu quickly covered the girl's mouth with his hand. Sasuke then approached them and he too peeked between the trees. His eyes widened slightly in shock as he saw as the pink-haired girl was thrown to the floor without any ceremony.

What was shocking him the most was not the fact that Sakura's life was on a very thin line but the anger that was quickly boiling inside him.

Before he could have time to think over, his feet had dragged him forward onto the opening.

"Hn, your luck has come to an end," Sasuke voice sounded strange to his own ears.

Karin immediately stepped out and placed herself at Sasuke's side. She tried her best to look as dangerous as he did but failed miserable.

"Yeah bitches! You're dead meat!" She said as she pointed her index finger at the only man who was not wearing a mask.

Suigetsu and Sai left their hiding and they too stepped forward. Jugo on the other hand, made his way towards the unconscious girl.

Sakura found herself on the ground, her neck shrieking in pain as she sucked down air in great whooping gulps. She noticed that she was in what seemed to be some sort of a cave. She took a quick look around her and realized that her kidnappers were nowhere to be seen. She then scrambled onto her hands and knees, but her foot slipped in a puddle of smear and she fell back into the ground, rocks cutting her face. And then when she least expected she felt a pair of strong hands around her waist.

At first the kunoichi tried to fight it, but the hold on her waist was not fierce. She felt herself being turned around. Her emerald eyes scanned the face she had not seen for a very long time.

"S-Sasuke-kun?" Sakura whispered as she blinked a few times to make sure that he was real.

"Hn, how are you feeling?"

Despite the pain, she was very aware of his touch, of the way his arm was secure around her, the way he controlled her body easily. Se had the altogether foreign thought that she was safe. He repeated the question, his hands clasped around her arms to keep her steady.

Sakura sighed deeply, "Fine, fine," she stated bleakly.

She felt Sasuke tense, felt the heat of him in the simple touch of his hand. "You aren't so fine," he stated with calm insistence.

"What?" Sakura asked suddenly feeling tired. This was probably an illusion. Sasuke was holding her… which meant… she had been rescued… nah it was just an illusion.

"Sakura…" a new voice joined in and the pink kunoichi head turned to stare at her team mate.

"Sai!" she exclaimed before she fell back into darkness once more.

A/N: Tchee!! A lot of action in this chapter no? Maybe I'm going to fast. Hmm what do you guys think?